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Arena Sport was launched in June 2013. Since then, the list has grown to twenty-one published titles, with a further nine due for publication in 2016. We have had a number of significant successes within the list, particularly with the English language edition of Neymar Jr’s autobiography, Neymar: My Story, and official histories of two major rugby teams – Behind the Lions: Playing Rugby for the British & Irish Lions and Behind the Rose: Playing Rugby for England – the world’s first biography of superstar boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr, Money: The Life and Fast Times of Floyd Mayweather by Tris Dixon and the critically acclaimed No Borders: Playing Rugby for Ireland by Tom English.
Working in conjunction with BackPage Press, one of the UK’s most exciting sports publishers, we have published the bestselling Pep Confidential: The Inside Story of Pep Guardiola’s First Season at Bayern Munich and the biography of Chelsea and Spain superstar Diego Costa, Diego Costa: The Art of War. We look forward to developing this successful partnership over the coming years.
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All those at Arena Sport have a deep love of sport and sports publishing and are committed to growing a dynamic and exciting list that explores a gamut of global sports and their major stars written either by the protagonists themselves or by the very best writers in their field.
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New Titles Behind the Thistle
Playing Rugby for Scotland David Barnes & Peter Burns with John Griffiths DAVID BARNES is a freelance journalist, covering rugby for various newspapers. He is the co-author of Jim Renwick’s autobiography, Centre of Excellence, and of the bestselling Behind the Lions: Playing Rugby for the British & Irish Lions. PETER BURNS is the editor for Arena Sport and the author of White Gold: England’s Journey to World Cup Glory and a contributor to Behind the Lions: Playing Rugby for the British & Irish Lions. JOHN GRIFFITHS is Britain’s foremost rugby historian and author of numerous books on the subject, including Rugby’s Strangest Matches, Rugby’s Greatest Characters and British Lions, and has worked as consultant historian on Behind the Rose: Playing Rugby for England and Behind the Lions: Playing Rugby for the British & Irish Lions.
Featuring the thoughts of 175 players who have represented Scotland since the very first Test match in 1871, Behind the Thistle gives a unique insight into the drama and emotion of playing for Scotland in that most rarefied of environments – Test match rugby. From the very first game all the way through to the present day, David Barnes, Peter Burns and John Griffiths delve into the heart of Scottish rugby as Scotland’s greatest players recount the ecstasy of victory and the despair of defeat, colouring their stories with humorous anecdotes and heartwarming memories. Behind the Thistle provides inside access to nearly 150 years of private moments in the changing room, on tour, on the training ground, and during the tumultuous heat of battle itself, as well as the post-match antics. This is the story of what it is really like to play rugby for Scotland, revealing the sacrifices and joys experienced by those who have shed blood, sweat and tears in pursuit of glory in the navy blue jersey.
ISBN: 9781909715035 eBook: 9780857906014 Price: £14.99 Format: 234 x 156mm pbk Rights: World All Languages February 2016 416pp Colour & b/w images throughout
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New Titles Behind the All Blacks The Players’ Stories
Tony Johnson & Lynn McConnell TONY JOHNSON is a household name in New Zealand as a rugby commentator, TV sports presenter, rugby writer, journalist and radio broadcaster. He has covered Test match, Super Rugby and domestic rugby in New Zealand since 1987 as well as a variety of other sports from the Olympics and Commonwealth games to golf and tennis. He lives in Auckland. LYNN MCCONNELL is one of New Zealand’s foremost sports historians with over 17 books to his name. He is the editor in New Zealand of the website sportal.co.nz and has an extensive career in newspaper journalism having been Sports Editor of The Evening Post in Wellington and earlier the Sports Editor of the Southland Times in Invercargill. He lives in Auckland.
Go behind the scenes with the world’s most successful sports team. This is a complete history of rugby’s most famous yet enigmatic team, the New Zealand All Blacks, told by the men who have had the honour of wearing the iconic black jersey. From the legendary 1905 ‘Originals’ all the way through to Richie McCaw’s record-breaking back-to-back World Cup champions of 2015, this is a history of the All Blacks like you have never experienced it before. Thanks to exhaustive archival research and exclusive new material garnered from a vast array of interviews with players and coaches from across the decades, Behind the All Blacks unveils the compelling truth of what it means to play for the team that has dominated Test match rugby for over a century. Absorbing and illuminating, this is the ultimate history of New Zealand rugby – told, definitively, by the men who have been there and done it.
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New Titles Behind the Ryder Cup The Players’ Stories
Peter Burns with Ed Hodge PETER BURNS is the editor for Arena Sport and the author of Behind the Thistle: Playing Rugby for Scotland, White Gold: England’s Journey to World Cup Glory and a contributor to Behind the Lions: Playing Rugby for the British & Irish Lions. ED HODGE boasts 15 years’ experience in the sports media industry in Scotland across a variety of roles and is now PR & Media Executive for the Scottish Golf Union. He is the author of Jewel in the Glen: Gleneagles, Golf and The Ryder Cup and Our Day in May: The Inside Story of St Johnstone FC’s First Major Trophy in 130 Years.
Enter the locker room: this is a history of the Ryder Cup like you have never experienced it before. From the origin matches that preceded the first official transatlantic encounter between Britain and America at Worcester Country Club in 1927, all the way through to the fortieth instalment at Gleneagles in 2014, this is the complete history of the Ryder Cup – told by the men who have been there and done it. With exhaustive research and exclusive new material garnered from interviews with players and captains from across the decades, Behind the Ryder Cup unveils the compelling truth of what it means to play in golf’s biggest match-play event, where greats of the game have crumbled under pressure while others have carved their names into sporting legend.
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New Titles Running the Smoke
26 First-Hand Accounts of Tackling the London Marathon Michael McEwan MICHAEL MCEWAN is a journalist from Glasgow. He is the Assistant Editor of PSP Media Group’s portfolio of sports titles, which include Bunkered, Scotland’s highest circulating golf magazine. He is a former winner of both the RBS Young Sportswriter of the Year and Evening Times Young Football Journalist of the Year awards. This is his first book.
It is the world’s most iconic road race. It is twenty-six-point-two miles of iconic landmarks, cheers, tears, sweat, pain, courage, determination and inspiration. It is triumph over adversity on a colossal scale. It is the London Marathon – and it’s an event unlike any other. Running The Smoke tells the story of what it’s like to take part in this race in the most enlightening and enriching way possible: from the perspectives of twenty-six different people who have participated in it since its inception in 1981. From elite runners, to celebrities, to fun-runners, Running The Smoke includes a broad cross-section of candid and inspiring first-hand accounts of running the London Marathon, from Greenwich to The Mall Whether you are preparing for your first marathon or your 100th, Running The Smoke will give you the encouragement, insight and belief you need to cross that line.
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ISBN: 9781909715387 eBook: 9780857903327 Price: £14.99 Format: 234 x 156mm pbk Rights: World All Languages October 2016 320pp 16pp colour plates
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Collision Course
The Olympic Tragedy of Mary Decker and Zola Budd Jason Henderson JASON HENDERSON began writing for Athletics Weekly in 1995 and has edited the magazine since 2001. Aged 45, he has covered four Olympics and written about athletics in The Sunday Times, Observer, Guardian, The Times and GQ. His passion for athletics was ignited as a teenager in the 1980s when he pestered his father to drive him from their home in Blackpool to track meetings as far afield as Cwmbran and Crystal Palace to watch Zola Budd’s early races in the UK.
Mary Decker’s clash with Zola Budd at the 1984 Los Angeles Games is one of the biggest and most controversial events in Olympic history. In a head-to-head that gripped the imagination of the world, the 3000 metres race pitted the experienced and glamourous world champion from the host nation against a prodigious, teenage waif from South Africa wearing a hastily-organised British flag on her vest and, memorably, no shoes on her feet. Disastrously, a mid-race collision saw Decker tumble to the inside of the track after her legs tangled with Budd’s as the 18-year-old overtook the American in a battle for pole position. Distraught and unable to carry on, the tearful Decker watched in frustration as Maricica Puica of Romania stormed to gold while Budd, who was heavily booed by the partisan crowd in the closing stages, faded to seventh. Using the famous Olympic moment as its focal point, Collision Course tells the story of two of the best-known and greatest athletes of alltime, analyses their place in history as pioneers of women’s sport, and lifts the lid on two lives that have been filled of sporting and political intrigue that, until now, has never been fully told.
ISBN: 9781909715363 eBook: 9780857909022 Price: £16.99 Format: 234 x 156mm hbk Rights: World All Languages June 2016 320pp 16pp colour plates
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New Titles Money
The Life and Fast Times of Floyd Mayweather Tris Dixon TRIS DIXON is the former editor of Boxing News and has covered the sport for nearly two decades. He was the ghostwriter for Ricky Hatton’s recent bestselling autobiography, War and Peace, and is a regular pundit on Sky Sports’ boxing shows, Big-Fight Special and Ringside. He is also often a guest on CNN, TalkSport, Sky News and other mainstream outlets and he has been ringside at major fights on both sides of the Atlantic since 2000, covering the sport on four continents and in more than a dozen countries.
Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather is one of the most successful professional boxers of all time. In September 2015 he defeated Andre Berto at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas to claim his fortyninth professional victory in a glittering unbeaten ring career that has spanned two decades. Mayweather was born into a boxing family that was barely surviving on the poverty line. His father had enjoyed a modestly successful career in the ring but had to make ends meet on the street. When a rival drug dealer arrived at the house and threatened to shoot him, Floyd Mayweather Sr picked up his son and used him as a human shield. Such were the ashes from which Floyd was to rise. This is the remarkable story of Floyd Mayweather’s ascent from these bleak origins to become the highest-paid sportsman on the planet. It is a story of greed, arrogance, abuse, extraordinary boxing ability and unrivalled ambition. In Money, Tris Dixon explores it all in a searing, insightful and often brutal exposé of one of the greatest athletes the world has ever seen.
‘Dixon’s recounting of Mayweather’s hard origins through the end of his amateur career is detailed and compelling . . . Money is the most thorough book about Floyd Mayweather that we’re likely to see for a long time’ – Ring Magazine
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ISBN: 9781909715356 eBook: 9780857908438 Price: £12.99 Format: 234 x 156mm pbk Rights: World All Languages June 2016 320pp 16pp colour plates
New Titles Celtic: A History
The Official History of Celtic Football Club Brian Wilson BRIAN WILSON wrote Celtic: A Century with Honour for the club’s centenary year. In the intervening period, he spent 18 years as Labour MP for Cunninghame North and served in five UK Ministerial capacities. On leaving politics in 2005, he became a nonexecutive director of Celtic PLC. He now lives on the Isle of Lewis with his wife Joni and the next generation of Celtic supporters, Mairi, Eoin and Ronan.
Celtic is a club like no other. Founded to raise money to help alleviate poverty within the predominantly Irish immigrant community of Glasgow’s East End, it has grown to become one of the most famous organisations in world football. In 1967, they became the first British club to win the European Cup, while domestically they have won, to date, 44 Scottish league titles, 36 Scottish Cups and 14 League Cups. Insightful, illuminating and endlessly dramatic, The Official History of Celtic Football Club charts the story of a unique sporting institution from its formation in 1887 all the way to the present day. ISBN: 9781909715356 eBook: 9780857908438 Price: £12.99 Format: 234 x 156mm pbk Rights: World All Languages June 2016 320pp 16pp colour plates
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New Titles The Road to Lisbon Anniversary Edition
Martin Greig & Charles McGarry MARTIN GREIG is an awardwinning freelance journalist and writer. He lives and works in Glasgow. CHARLES MCGARRY is a freelance subeditor and designer for various national and local newspapers. He lives and works in Glasgow
In 1967 Celtic manager Jock Stein stepped from the tunnel of Lisbon’s Estádio Nacional and took up a position pitchside as his team of home-grown players ran out to face the might of Inter Milan, the charismatic superstars of Italian football, in the European Cup final. Celtic were a team forged in Stein’s own image, steeled with a relentless industry and integrity by their inspirational manager whose character had, in turn, been honed by the horrors of the deep dark of the Lanarkshire coalfields. Martin Greig and Charles McGarry’s extraordinary novel delves to the very heart of that incredible season, telling the story through the eyes of Stein – as he plots and plans and drags his team to the pinnacle of European club football – and those of Tim, an idealistic young fan from the south side of Glasgow, whose dreams of life beyond the decaying slums of the Gorbals are inextricably tied to those of his heroes. This 50th anniversery edition of The Road to Lisbon is a novel of hopes and dreams, of self-discovery and triumph over adversity … and of an unerring love with an institution that represents so much more than just a football club.
‘By focusing on both boss and fan, the authors capture the passion and determination of the true football devotee’ – Herald ‘A superb novel about a momentous Celtic triumph’ – Celtic View
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ISBN: 9781909715356 eBook: 9780857908438 Price: £12.99 Format: 234 x 156mm pbk Rights: World All Languages June 2016 320pp 16pp colour plates
New Titles Grand Prix: The Killer Years Extended interviews from the BBC film John L. Matthews This is the story of Formula One’s killer years when the sport was out of control. In the 1960s and early 1970s mechanical failure, lethal track design, fire and incompetence led to dozens of brave young drivers losing their lives, with the grizzly spectacle often televised for millions to see. With boycotts of the prestigious Belgian and German Grands Prix, drivers fought to get their voices heard but it would be a long and painful time before conditions changed. Featuring many famous drivers, including three World Champions – Emerson Fittipaldi, Sir Jackie Stewart and John Surtees OBE – renowned filmmaker John L Matthews goes to the heart of those deadly years and tells the story in the words of the men who were there in a collection of compelling, illuminating and deeply moving extended interviews from the critically acclaimed BBC film. ISBN: 9781909715417 eBook: 9780857909053 Rights: World March 2016
Price: £8.99 Format: 198 x 129mm pbk 208pp
The Rise and Fall of the Secret Agent
Fully revised and updated edition of The Secret Agent: Inside the World of the Football Agent A completely revised and updated edition of the criticallyacclaimed The Secret Agent with 20,000 words of new material. From mere coffee boy, to lowly scout, to multi-million pound wheeler dealer with the Premiership big guns and the cream of the Champions League, this book charts the Secret Agent’s fast and furious progress through the dressing rooms, board rooms and bedrooms of England’s top clubs. It doesn’t just lift the lid on the true face of professional football, it tears it off and hurls it across the room. This is a no-holds-barred, jaw-dropping insight into the true power-brokers of the world game: the moneymen and dealmakers who grease the wheels – or, more accurately, the palms – that make the whole football machine tick. ISBN: 9781909715431 eBook:9780857908155 Rights: World English Language June 2016
Price: £9.99 Format: 198 x 129mm pbk 304pp
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Bestsellers No Borders
Playing Rugby for Ireland Tom English Celebrated rugby writer Tom English embarks on a pilgrimage through the four provinces to reveal the fascinating and illuminating story of playing test rugby in the emerald green of Ireland – all the glory of victory, all the pain of defeat, and the craic behind the scenes. This is a searing portrait of the effects of politics and religion on Irish sport, a story of great schisms and volatile divisions, but also a story of profound unity, passionate friendships and the bonds of brotherhood. Filled with exclusive new interview material with a host of Ireland rugby greats, No Borders unveils the compelling truth of what it means to play for Ireland in the heart of Dublin and around the world. This is the ultimate history of Irish rugby – told, definitively, by the men who have been there and done it.
ISBN: 9781909715189 eBook: 9780857908445 Rights: World September 2015
Price: £19.99 Format: 234 x 156mm hbk 352pp Illustrated throughout
The Complete Rugby Union Compendium Foreword by Nigel Owens Keith Young Celebrated rugby writer Tom English embarks on a pilgrimage through the four provinces to reveal the fascinating and illuminating story of playing test rugby in the emerald green of Ireland – all the glory of victory, all the pain of defeat, and the craic behind the scenes. This is a searing portrait of the effects of politics and religion on Irish sport, a story of great schisms and volatile divisions, but also a story of profound unity, passionate friendships and the bonds of brotherhood. Filled with exclusive new interview material with a host of Ireland rugby greats, No Borders unveils the compelling truth of what it means to play for Ireland in the heart of Dublin and around the world. This is the ultimate history of Irish rugby – told, definitively, by the men who have been there and done it. ISBN: 9781909715400 eBook: 9780857903266 Rights: World November 2015
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Price: £12.99 Format: 234 x 156mm hbk 368pp 16pp colour and b/w illus.
Bestsellers Pep Confidential
The Inside Story of Pep Guardiola’s First Season at Bayern Munich Martí Perarnau With 14 trophies to his name and his legend established for building what many believe to be the greatest team of all time, Pep Guardiolaquit FC Barcelona in July 2012 to take a year-long sabbatical from football. After months of being feted by club owners around the world desperate for his signature, Guardiola made a surprise move by signing for German superclub Bayern Munich in January 2013, as Bayern were in the midst of securing an historic Treble. Taking over at a clubenjoying such success seemed to many pundits to be an impossible and thankless task – where could Guardiola possibly take them next? It is a question that Guardiola has answered in spectacular fashion, casting his inimitable style on the team to further develop their play andguiding them to the UEFA Super Cup, the Club World Cup title and to the retention of the Bundesliga title reinforcing his reputation as one of the finest managerial minds the game has ever seen. ISBN: 9781909715257 eBook: 9780857908179 Rights: World October 2014
Price: £14.99 Format: 216 x 135mm pbk 488pp 16pp colour plates
Diego Costa The Art of War Fran Guillén Costa’s career has been a slow-burning one. He was frequently loaned out to other Spanish teams by parent club Atletico Madrid. But during that period, as he suffered in the shadow of Atletico’s star young striker, Sergio Aguero, he was also learning how to harness his enormous talent. Then, in season 2013-14, he exploded onto the scene, scoring 35 goals and inspiring his side to win La Liga and reach the final of the Champions League, where they lost to Real Madrid after Costa limped out of the action with an injury which would hang over his World Cup summer. Diego Costa: The Art of War covers every aspect of his career, from growing up in Brazil, to the fallow years when he learned his trade and then his astonishing impact on world football over the past two years. There are over 80 interviews, including big names such as Vicente Del Bosque, Cesc Fabregas, Sergio Ramos, Koke and more. ISBN: 9781909715295 eBook: 9780857908575 Rights: World July 2015
Price: £9.99 Format: 198 x 129mm pbk 288pp 16pp colour plates
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